On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:12:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:55:11 -0400 > Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > We have no way of validating what all of the Asus WMI methods do on a > > given machine, and there's a risk that some will allow hardware state to > > be manipulated in such a way that arbitrary code can be executed in the > > kernel. Add a capability check to prevent that. > > This is true of any firmware method on any device Why pick on ASUS. Have > you run this through ASUS and discussed it with them. It seems highly > inappropriate to cripple a specific vendors feature set without > discussion and an Ack from the vendor concerned. Because asus-wmi is the only driver that has a debugfs interface that lets you run arbitrary WMI methods. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
